A fresh crop of students have arrived at Duchy College Rosewarne to take the new BSc in Horticulture.
The college, which is part of the Cornwall College group, is celebrating the 14 new arrivals, who are returning to the college ‘from years past’ to take the course, which is the first of its kind in the South West.
Some of the students are returning after beginning their horticulture education at Duchy by studying for RHS part-time qualifications, and have then worked their way up to doing the degree course.
The course, which is approved by the University of Plymouth, will cover subjects including advanced plant use, technology transfar and sustainable practice, ethnobotany, contemporary issues in horticulture, horticulture in the environment, and will conclude with an honours reseach project.
The college will aim to help students capitalize on the growth in the horticulture industry, graduating with practical management skills alongside academic and applied knowledge, making them a ‘valuable asset to any horticultural organisation’.
From this year, the students will be based in the new ‘Centre for Horticulture and Applied Plant Science (CHAPS), which was formally known as the Rodda Building, and is due to be formally launched later this month. The centre has been created by Dr Barry Mulholland, course manager of the BSc in Horticulture, and Marshall Hutchens, the HE programme manager, in order to ‘recognise the huge amount of important research and development carried out at the college’.
The college has recently seen research activity focusing on areas such as novel growing systems, rare species conservation, invasive plant control, biofuel crops and soil use and management.
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